Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-02-22
10th COngress---SecOnd Session.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 81.

Oregon in the fall of 1886 was taken up. Mr.
Mitchell. of Oregon, in abandoning the reso
luton denounced Colonel J. G. Parke. HI
said his conduct was ''defant and unjust.
He concluded long speech by refer
ring to Colonel Parke as courteous, po-
lite gentleman and an accommodating Off
GER" He said he took issue with him only
in regard to his official acts.
| At 2 O'Clock the Nicaragua ship canal bill
was announced.
| Mr.. Morgan offered a resolution which
was adopted authorizing the ordnance com
mittee to sit in Washington during the re-
cess and to associate with it three naval Off
| GERS.
| By unanimous consent Mr.. Conger replied
to the remarks of Mr.. Mitchell. He defended
Colonel Parke. He said he was a man OF
wonderful familiarity with all questions con-
nected with river and harbor improvements.
Mr.. Hawley protested against the attack
made on Colonel Parke before a tribunal
where he could not appear in his own de-
tense. He would to morrow move to lay the
| resolution on the table or refer it to the mill
| tary affairs committee.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
river and harbor bill. Mr.. Van Wyck's
| amendment on Saturday was modified and
| agreed to. 1t directs that half of the $780,
900 for the improvement of the Missouri be
| expended at Atchison, Fort Leavenworth.
| Anow rock and Omaha under the direction
| of the Secretary of War.
Mr.. Plumb moved to amend the Missouri
| river paragraph by adding to it the words
tAnd all the expenditures of this paragraph
| shall be made under the direction of the
Secretary of War" After some discussion
| this amendment was agreed to.
On motion of Mr.. Allison, Sioux City,
Iowa, was inserted as one of the points at
| which half the $500, 900 is to be expended.
On motion of Mr.. Miller the item for
| Rouse's Point, N. Y, was increased from
$500 to SIS, 900, the item for the narrows
at Lake Champlain from $4,000 to $18, 900
and the item for Burlington, VT, from $12,-
500 to S25, 900.
The bill was reported to the Senate from
the committee of the whole and it was passed
| without division. A committee of confer
ence was asked on the points of difference be-
| tween the two houses
The Senate then at o'clock took up the
| bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal com
| pany OF Nicaragua The question of other
| companies having charters from the republic
| of Nicaragua was brought up by Mr.. Hoar
| Mr.. Vest mentioned the American Atlantic
and Pacific ship canal company having
a charter from Nicaragua and
| had read the opinion of an eminent
legal firm in New York to the effect that the
/ right conferred upon this company in 1S49
| survived unimpaired. Admiral Ammen and
| Secretary Frelinghuysen thought the right of
| the company had terminated and Mr.. Vest
| thought Congress should not guarantee an
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claims were brought to its attention.
Mr.. Edmunds replied to Mr.. Vest. He
| denied in toto the insinuation that this bill
| had been withheld until the Eads scheme had
| been put upon the calendar. It had been
| introduced by Senator Miller, of California,
| years before Eads had thought of his scheme.
| The opposition to this bill, he said, had not
| leg to stand upon. The single question
| was whether the private ambition of Mr..
Eads was to turn over the Nicaraguan canal
| into the hands of some foreign government
| instead of having it under the influence and
control of the United States.
| The question was taken on Mr.. Vests
| amendment and it was rejected without di-
| vision.
| Mr. Edmunds thought if there were con-
| ficting rights the republic of Nicaragua
| should settle them. He denied that any
State could cut off the right of the United
| States to incorporate company because
| some State had already Incorporated another
| company.
| Mr.. Vest offered an amendment providing
| that the act shall have no force effect until
| a concession shall have been secured from the
government of Nicaragua and shall have
been approved by Congress and followed it
up with a speech in opposition to the mari
time canal bill.
Mr.. Vests amendment was rejected.
The bill was then passed; yeas 3S, nays 3.
The nays were Messrs. Berry, Coke, Jones of
| Arkansas, Maxey and Vest.
The bill Incorporates Frederick Billings,
| Charles P. Daily, HI. Hotchkiss, "A. Stout,
w. B. Franklin, Daniel Ammen William l..
Merry, Horace Danes, E. F. Beale, j. H. Me-
Mullen, Sheppard Romans and associates
| the Maritime Canal company of Nicaragua
with the principal Office in New York. The
capital stock is to be not less than fifty nor
more than one hundred millions. Ten per
cent. is to be payable when subscriptions to
the capital stock are made and future pay
the board of directors may
determine The aggregate of all charges,
dues and towsge is to be reasonable and not
to exceed $50 per ton cargo weight on
board any vessel or not exceeding 81 20 per
ton actu displacement of any steam vessel
and $1.75 per ton actual displacement OF
any sailing vessel. The United States is to
exercise such control of the canal as provid-
ed for by treaty with Nicaragua and not in
consistent with any treaty obligations of the
United States. If stock to the amount of
$1,000. 900 be not subscribed and ten per
cent thereof actually paid within two years,
or if the work of construction
shall not have actually commenced
and been in progress within four years, the
corporation shall be deemed to have expired
by limitation and all it's franchises to have
ceased and determined.
A resolution heretofore offered by Mr.
Butler for the appointment of select com
Il1JIS6 OIL i've TO WISH places dlOLH LILO MOAi-
can frontier and the city of Mexico with the
approval of the Mexican government to in
quire into disturbances that may have &C.
CURED and their causes, with power to send
for persons and papers, employ a stenogra-
pher and sit during the recess, was taken up
and referred to the committee on foreign re-
| lations.
Mr.. Riddleberger moved that in honor of
| the memory of the father of his country the
Senate adjourn over to morrow. This was
| negatived-yeas 1S, nays 42-and at sos the
Senate went into secret session and Il few
| minutes later adjourned.
HoUsE-Mr. Ding1ey, of Maine, presented
memorials from Grand Army posts in Maine
| for the passage of the dependent pension bill
over the Presidents veto; referred.
Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania, presented a
memorial from the Rhode Island Peace socl-
| ETY. in opposition to expenditures for war yes
| sells and Notifications and urging that inter
| national disputes be settled by arbitration;
referred.
| Mr. Cobb called up the conference report
| a report of Misrepresentation the bill repeal
| ing the presumption timber culture and des
ert land laws. Mr.. Stone, of Missouri, in
explaining the bill, said that under existing
| laws single person could enter 100 acres
under the homestead law, $50 acres under
the timber culture and $40 under the desert
| land law, making total of !, 100 acres The
| cOmm1tLe0 desired TO cOfr6Cb GnlS evil ana
stop the abuses of the law, of which cormo-
| rants had taken advantage and secured mil
lions of acres of public lands to the exclusion
of individual settlers.
Mr.. Straight, of Minnesota, said the prin-
cipal difference between the House and Sen
| ate conferees was whether OF not an entry
man should be allowed to 60 to the courts
| after cancellation of the final certificates by
| the general land office commissioner.
Mr.. Peters, of Kansas, said it would be
| dishonorable to repeal the pre- -emption
law and not provide for the protection of in
| nocent purchasers.
Mr. Perkins criticised the conduct of the
general land commissioner. He had no com
| plant to make against him personally. He
| had only once intruded upon the presence of
| his majesty and then he found him engaged
| in sending out portrait of himself. Think
| ing that there was less harm in that than in
anything else the commissioner was likely
| to do he (Perkins) had withdrawn without
disturbing him.
Mr.. Doherty, of Florida, attacked the